Joshua 20 The Lord also spoke unto Joshua, saying,

CKJV_Strongs⁽ⁱ⁾

1 H3068 The Lord H1696 also spoke H3091 unto Joshua, H559 saying,

2 H1696 Speak H1121 to the sons H3478 of Israel, H559 saying, H5414 Appoint out H5892 for you cities H4733 of refuge, H1696 whereof I spoke H3027 unto you by the hand H4872 of Moses:

3 H7523 That the slayer H5221 that kills H5315 any person H7684 unawares H1847 and unwittingly H5127 may flee H4733 there: and they shall be your refuge H1350 from the avenger H1818 of blood.

4 H5127 And when he that does flee H259 unto one H5892 of those cities H5975 shall stand H6607 at the entering H8179 of the gate H5892 of the city, H1696 and shall declare H1697 his cause H241 in the ears H2205 of the elders H5892 of that city, H622 they shall take H5892 him into the city H5414 unto them, and give H4725 him a place, H3427 that he may live among them.

5 H1350 And if the avenger H1818 of blood H7291 pursue H310 after H5462 him, then they shall not deliver H7523 the slayer H3027 up into his hand; H5221 because he struck H7453 his neighbor H1097 unwittingly, H8130 and hated H8543 him not previously.

6 H3427 And he shall live H5892 in that city, H5975 until he stand H6440 before H5712 the congregation H4941 for judgment, H4194 and until the death H1419 of the high H3548 priest H834 that H3117 shall be in those days: H7523 then shall the slayer H7725 return, H935 and come H5892 unto his own city, H1004 and unto his own house, H5892 unto the city H5127 from from where he fled.

7 H6942 And they appointed H6943 Kedesh H1551 in Galilee H2022 in mountain H5321 Naphtali, H7927 and Shechem H2022 in mountain H669 Ephraim, H7153 and Kirjath–arba, H2275 which is Hebron, H2022 in the mountain H3063 of Judah.

8 H5676 And on the other side H3383 Jordan H3405 by Jericho H4217 eastward, H5414 they assigned H1221 Bezer H4057 in the wilderness H4334 upon the plain H4294 out of the tribe H7205 of Reuben, H7216 and Ramoth H1568 in Gilead H4294 out of the tribe H1410 of Gad, H1474 and Golan H1316 in Bashan H4294 out of the tribe H4519 of Manasseh.

9 H5892 These were the cities H4152 appointed H1121 for all the sons H3478 of Israel, H1616 and for the stranger H1481 that stays H8432 among H5221 them, that whoever kills H5315 any person H7684 at unawares H5127 might flee H4191 there, and not die H3027 by the hand H1350 of the avenger H1818 of blood, H5975 until he stood H6440 before H5712 the congregation.